Pearl Diver

A Hot Buttered Rum is lovely. But an Iced Buttered Rum is genius. Anybody can come up with a batter for the former, but only a mad soused scientist like Don The Beachcomber could think up a batter that not only liquefies in a cold rum punch but transforms it into an utterly unique experience, with a luxuriant flavor and silky mouth-feel. That he did this in 1937, over 60 years before the advent of molecular mixology, makes his Pearl Diver even more of a marvel.

About that Pearl Diver glass: This drink was such a novelty, it needed a vessel to match. The glass that the Beachcomber used -- with its ribbed bottom half ballooning out into a voluptuous bowl -- was as distinctive as the beverage it held.